What happened in 1895

World3

• Jan 6The Wilcox rebellion, an attempt led by Robert Wilcox to overthrow the Republic of Hawaii and restore the Kingdom of Hawaii, begins with royalist troops landing at Waikiki Beach in O'ahu and clashing with republican defenders. The rebellion ends after three days and the remaining 190 royalists are taken prisoners of war.
• Apr 22Gongche Shangshu movement: 603 candidates sign a 10,000-word petition against the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
• May 2Gongche Shangshu movement: Thousands of Beijing scholars and citizens protest against the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

Japan1

• Mar 15Heian Shrine is completed in Kyoto, Japan.

North America3

• May 27In re Debs: The Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike.
• Aug 19American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
• Dec 24George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his Biltmore Estate, inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in Asheville, North Carolina.

Europe18

• Jan 5Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of treason.
• Jan 12Britain's National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.
• Mar 22Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière make what is probably the first presentation of a projected celluloid film moving picture, the 46-second Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, to members of the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale in Paris.
• Apr 14A major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, the capital of Carniola.
• May 18The first motor race in Italy is held, on a course from Turin to Asti and back, a total of. Five entrants start the event; only three complete it. It is won by Simone Federman in a four-seat Daimler Omnibus, at an average speed of.
• Jun 21The Kiel Canal, connecting the North Sea to the Baltic across the base of the Jutland peninsula in Germany, is officially opened.
• Jul 31The Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco) is founded by Sabino Arana.
• Aug 29The Northern Rugby Football Union (the modern-day Rugby Football League) is formed at a meeting of 21 rugby clubs at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, in the north of England, leading to the creation of the professional sport of rugby league football.
• Sep 7The first game of what will become known as rugby league football is played in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
• Oct 10The London School of Economics holds its first classes in London, England.
• NovDiscovery of X-raysRöntgen in Germany found an invisible ray that passed through objects. His photograph of the bones in his wife's hand caused a sensation around the world, and X-rays were soon used in medicine.
• Dec 13The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 is given, with the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra conducted by the composer.
• Dec 18The Laurin & Klement automobile brand, predecessor of Škoda Auto, is founded as a bicycle manufacturer in central Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic).
• DecBirth of cinemaOn December 28 in Paris, the Lumière brothers held a paid screening of the Cinématographe, projected onto a screen. One of the first films was less than a minute of people leaving a factory.
• The Swarovski Company is founded by Armand Kosman, Franz Weis and Daniel Swarovski in the Austrian Tyrol, for the production of crystal glass.

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Asia6

• Apr 17The Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed between China and Japan. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea, and to concede the southern portion of Fengtian province, Taiwan and the Penghu to Japan. The huge indemnity exacted from China is used to establish the Yawata Iron and Steel Works in Japan.
• May 24Anti-Japanese officials, led by Tang Jingsong in Taiwan, declare independence from the Qing dynasty, forming the short-lived Republic of Formosa.
• Aug 29The Mat Salleh Rebellion in North Borneo is incited.
• Oct 2Peiyang University, predecessor of Tianjin University, is founded as an institution of higher education in Qing dynasty China.
• Oct 8Queen Min, queen consort of Joseon (Korea), is assassinated at her private residence within Gyeongbokgung Palace by Japanese agents.
• Oct 23The city of Tainan, last stronghold of the Republic of Formosa, capitulates to the forces of the Empire of Japan, ending the short-lived republic, and beginning the era of Taiwan under Japanese rule.

Latin America2

• Feb 24The first rebellions of the Cuban War of Independence break out.
• Jun 20The Treaty of Amapala establishes the union of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador (which ends in 1898).

Africa1

• Jan 13First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians.

Oceania1

• Jan 24An effort to restore the Hawaiian monarchy ends as the former Queen Liliuokalani abdicates and pledges allegiance to the Republic of Hawaii.